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Seek is a prioritization in a particular dimension to align your center, body, and intention in a particular Dimension. Primarily we talk about seek, as seeking into the connection, but a dancer can also seek into momentum, seek into a direction or line of dance, seek into the music, seek into emotion, etc.
Seeking into connection is a prep for activating connection at potential connection points. This prep is created through a continuously adaptive alignment of a dancer’s body with the trajectory of an active connection point. This alignment lets your partner know you’re available for connection with the connection points that you are seeking into. Seek communicates each dancer’s understanding of the connection. It also aligns their bodies to most efficiently initiate and incorporate energy. Seek helps to shift the priority of the connection from being between the dancer’s center and the ground to the connection between the two dancer’s centers.
A form of alignment where the dancer lightly engages musculature to connect their own center of gravity to the connection point and aligns the rest of their body with the pathway between the connection point and the center. This creates a subtle sensation of “reaching” or “extending” internally in ones own body relative to the connection point.
The felt sense of seek is similar to reaching for something while standing on a ladder - you’re holding your center into the ladder so you don’t fall (you’re maintaining your own center - not investing it with your partner) while extending a hand to reach away from your center to potentially “connect” with what you’re reaching for.
In specific dance technique pools outside of Fusion, the default posture and frame of that form enables dancers to prioritize seek into the connection points inherit to that dance’s frame. For example in Argentine Tango, the dancers seek into the compression based frame either through the arms or in a chest to chest connection.
Related Points: Default Posture List Alignment Shaping Two Way Communication